WEST FRONT VIEW Homes head offices are established on the outskirts of an industrial area at the foot of the Pieve di Soligo hills, which are about fifty kilometres from Venice. The architectural estate withholds the executive, sales, technical and administrative offices of the five companies in the furniture field. The client asked for a functional building that could express a strong group identity. The project is characterized by two non perpendicular intersected parallelepiped in order to express better space dialectics. The plan allocation bears in mind Feng-shui (living in harmony with the environment) and uses the water element faculty to balance the forces. In fact, the visitor is accompanied by a veil of water that runs right up to the entrance of the showroom which is positioned 6 meters below ground level. The main sides of the building are east and west facing exploiting the natural cycle of the sun. The main entrance is south facing, as it is a catalyst of positive energy. It is a building that uses the best technology in heat insulation, soundproofing and work quality environment. The longitudinal building is defined by a continuous façade of low emission glass windows. An aluminium texture, overlapping the façade composed of extruded elements that by interconnecting suggest a meaning of one identity, is the characterizing element. On the one side the texture develops higher than the building, as to symbolize that the strength of the group goes over the physical boundaries.
